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Life as we know it depends on...

‘Hidden’ impacts on women...

Democracy is on the decline...

Global CO2 emissions are at an all time high in 2022...

CFOs, if you haven’t been paying attention...

Vulnerability play a central role in the context of climate change...

Is your company prepared for the increased scrutiny on climate strategies...

Investors have a crucial role to play...

Is your company ready with a credible climate transition plan...

Ending deforestation and land conversion are fundamental to...

Yes, human rights due diligence (HRDD) expectations apply to the full value chain...

The scale of corruption is huge...

Integrate a gender lens into climate investments...

If your company is relying on platform-based workers...

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Investors: can you push for more doing and less saying...

Creating lasting, meaningful initiatives...

Money makes the world go round...

We are in a biodiversity crisis...

The significant challenges global labour markets face...

The inter-connections between human rights and climate...

The top ten greatest risks for the next decade span...

The very innovation that drives AI also poses serious risks to human rights...

Companies - stand ready for significantly more focus on biodiversity...

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If you’re a corporate service provider, a strategic advisor, an investor or a business consultant...

Market forces could be the boost we need to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050...

A series of different drivers are leading more and more investors to seek data on companies'...

More and more companies are demonstrating attention, effort and action on the ...

Climate change and freshwater loss are closely linked topics. Mitigating one ...

Companies in the agricultural sector are increasingly seeing that “farmers must ...

The 11th session of the UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights took place this week in ...

Last week, Lara Wolters, the Rapporteur on the EU Parliament’s Committee of Legal Affairs, ...

The evidence indicates that, for the first time in the twenty-first century, real wage ...

The Glasgow Climate Pact that emerged from COP26 urged “nongovernmental organisations and ...

I just had the pleasure of moderating an insightful and rich discussion for the first session of ...

Now we’re talking UNGPs soft law and hard law inter-connections...

Boards will need 40% women non-executive board members...

Companies will no longer be able to rely...

The COP27 talks have concluded, and we have our COP27 agreement. Let’s run you ...

Not all net zero pledges are created equal. As attention on private sector entities’ record on ...

Many governments are beginning to reference just transition in their ...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate’s words say it all: “As hot as ...

We cannot let go of 1.5°C: any rise above will have hugely significant climate change impact...

What we need now is radical cooperation...

Non-state actors, including businesses and financial institutions, are essential...

We need to pull out every tool in our toolbox and create new ones...

Financial institutions have a key role to play not only in...

Many companies are taking action...they may be missing the boat...

Let’s place land equality at the core of company actions...

Investors in the renewable energy sector occupy a key position...

Much of our global economy relies on the maritime sector...

Companies need to apply a climate justice lens... for their own benefit...

“Whole-system” transformation to net-zero requires companies to think differently...

The transport sector has a crucial role to play in meeting global net-zero emissions targets...

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Prohibiting products made with forced labour - good in principle, but ...

Calling all stakeholders to be part of a European Green Social Deal ...

In its tenth year of cataloguing attacks and violence against land and environmental defenders...

We all have a general sense of what just transition entails. But what does...

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In short, this is a time to talk about mental health – so let’s talk about it...

Mental health in the workplace has taken a beating over the last several years, in light of ...

Market inclusion efforts are meant to help smallholder farmers from developing countries ...

It is now time for bold choices and urgent action that can change systems to create a better ...

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Forced labour import bans are in the air these days. The release of the European Commission’s ...

The European Parliament is taking deliberate steps to ensure that human rights are incorporated ...

Some bad news: We’re not seeing improvement in the global prevalence of forced labour. Over the ....

The UN Global Compact, and the Think Lab on Just Transition it is hosting, has just released ...

Ian Fry, the first Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the ...

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released its report on the ...

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The private sector has a responsibility and a strategic opportunity to publicly advocate for ...

A new right for a new era. Everyone, everywhere, has a human right to live in a clean, healthy ...

Companies need to rise to the challenge to meet the net zero transition - a challenge which can ...

“Women and other underserved groups are disproportionately impacted by the global climate crisis ...

Two historic court decisions (in the UK and Brazil) and several ongoing cases at the European ...

Inequality—within communities, within countries and across borders—is growing and is becoming ...

Companies in the forestry, land-use and agricultural (FLAG) sectors contribute significantly to ...

The UNGPs set out that effective operational-level grievance mechanisms (OGMs) should be based ...

OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) serve as fora for mediation and conciliation between ...

Investors have been scaling up their interest in labour rights issues, like health and safety, ...

According to the ITUC, the ten worst countries in the world for workers’ rights in 2022 are ...

Courts continue to serve as an important battleground for action on climate change, with a ...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, David R. Boyd, and international ...

I leave London Climate Action Week both terrified and re-energised, in equal measure. We have so ...

Carbon offsetting is an element of many companies’ and financial institutions’ net-zero ...

The rush for energy transition minerals and metals is spurring many countries to “fast-track” ...

We know that the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) expect companies worldwide to conduct human ...

What happens in the U.S. does not stay in the U.S… unless it’s forced labour. A trade ban on ...

A growing number of companies are integrating climate justice into their sustainability ...

Lots of companies rely on power purchase agreements (PPAs) and renewable energy certificates ...

The European Commission’s proposed environmental and human rights due diligence duty obviously ...

Companies are making ambitious and large-scale investments to reduce their contributions to ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 kick-started a challenging period of reckoning ...

We are living in a new planetary reality, one in which the climate system is destabilized and ...